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Homemade strawberry syrup and a strawberry round up

Strawberries are everywhere now. Tempting me with their luscious juicy red color. I find it hard to resist them and often come home with strawberries whenever I am out grocery shopping even if they weren’t on the list.

Today’s recipe is my favorite companion to pancakes. Strawberry syrup adds fruity freshness and a sweet note to my favorite pancakes. It is also great as a topping for yogurt, my idea of a great way to start the day. If you are not a big fan of pancakes or yogurt, this syrup makes a wonderful topping for ice cream.

Homemade strawberry syrup

Mash the strawberries to the consistency you want, I like the sauce chunky with visible bits of strawberries. You can pulse the strawberries in your mixer or food processor if you like the sauce to be smooth.

In a pot place the strawberries, sugar and 3/4 cup of water.

Bring to a boil over medium low heat, stirring every now and then for 10 minutes

When you have 5 minutes left in the cooking time, dissolve the corn starch in the 1/4 cup of water and add it to the syrup while stirring. This will thicken the sauce and give it a beautiful consistency.

Store the left over sauce in a clean dry jar in your fridge, it will last up to two weeks.

Strawberries are without a doubt the BEST berry 😀
What a fantastic round up! And I am honoured you included my chocolate berry cobbler my friend, thank you do much 🙂
As for your own creation, that is what I want on my pancakes, no ifs or buts about it!

Every time I receive your recipes and go over your pictures, I remember Amman and my homesickness is enhanced, oh Amman I miss you soooooooooo much! miss mom and dad, miss family, streets and the smell and taste of every bit of you. I miss your Ascedenia and Janerek, those carts on the streets, and the flowers been sold at the traffic of masjed 3ibad Arra7man at this time of the year! love you Amman!

I am glad I bring back fond memories Huda, I hope you will come for a visit soon to enjoy the beauty of Amman in the spring.
Your comment put a smile on my face, thank you for taking the time to leave it

Ohhhhh I was waiting for this! I really wish we were neighbours Sawsan! I would be constantly at your place!!! hehehehe Yum!

And thank you so much for including my recipe in such a wonderful round up! 🙂

As for the next recipe… I would love all!!! hehehe If I REALLY had to decide… I would go for the drink first, then the labaneh and then the bread… mainly as I have lots of whey in the fridge (and will soon get more)! hehehe ❤

I think the exact same thought when I visit your blog, oh how I wish we were neighbours, we’d have so much fun
I will be posting the drink recipe real soon but if you’d like to try it, it is one part yogurt to 4 parts whey and pulse them in the food processor or mixer with a sprinkle of salt, you can also add mint or even garlic. I know it may sound odd but you just have to taste it, it is a very popular, refreshing and healthy drink

Hello Chef Sawsan,While browsing the net I came acsors your wonderful cooking site by all means. You are doing great work with these food variations & tasteful recipes specially the middle eastern ones. Excellent introductions about recipes, great pictures, and very well organized presentation of the recipes. I wish you the best.

That strawberry sauce would make my daughter SO happy… she would survive on strawberries if she could! I gotta make this for her! Lovely round-up of dishes!! And I would love to see the recipe for that flatbread AND the yoghurt dip (I am not being greedy! It just sounds to me like they would go great together:)!)… Great post 🙂

Oh my! I need some strawberries now too!!!! Thank you for including me in this delicious round-up and with a recipe that I had forgotten about. 😉 Strawberry syrup is wonderful and my kids (and Mike and I) would love this over some waffles, pancakes or even French toast. Yum! (And I made Linda’s strawberry cilantro salsa last week – fabulous!)

What a wonderful syrup! It would have been perfect with our waffles this morning! I can imagine that it would be good with yogurt and ice cream as well. Your strawberry wish list has me drooling! Hope you had a marvelous weekend!

Lovely syrup, I adore this on yogurt! Great round up too, very inspiring and am looking forward to all three of your recipes mentioned as I know they will all be equally fantastic. But maybe the flat bread first…?!

Hello Eva. I was actually thinking about trying a batch with reduced sugar but I do think you have to use them up faster. I’ll make some over the weekend with reduced sugar and let you know how they turned out. I hope the pancakes were to your liking

What a great post! I told you I was waiting for your strawberry syrup post but you gave us so much more than syrup. I’ve already made jam last week and I’ll be coming back here to your round-up as the strawberry season progresses. Thanks, Sawsan.

I love sweet strawberries.. that’s when we know spring has truly arrived! This was such a cheery and beautiful post today.. I love the round-up of recipes to try and thank you sooo much for including my salad. Sometimes I even forget what I’ve posted;) xoxo Smidge

The strawberry photos are killing me. We have huge strawberries in the market right now but they are half white and have no sweet smell. I can’t wait for summer’s sweet strawberries. To answer your question, I would love to see your recipe for the flatbread next.

Sawsan! I’m officially drooling and can’t stop looking at all of these strawberry recipes. Everything looks amazing. Thanks for sharing this roundup. 🙂 Looks like it’s time for me to cook/bake with strawberries!

I can’t believe I am in such an amazing and breathtaking roundup of strawberry delicacies! Everything looks sensational and I am truly humbled and grateful to be part of it. Thank you so much Sawsan! Have a wonderful week!

Thank YOU Geni for all your yummy creations and wonderful posts that I enjoy so much. I can’t wait to make this amazing cake, I am just waiting for when I have some company otherwise I stand a very good chance of eating it all by myself

Thanks Sonson for all these mouthwatering strauberrry recipes, all yummy….
Your sauce is very wonderful, for breakfast, snacks, and desserts, one of my kids best pancake companion too. Thanks darling….

What a mouth watering round up! I love strawberries, I pay a high price for them in the off-season just so I can have them on my breakfast every morning. The syrup sounds wondeful over ice cream. The other thing I did with them this year was make strawberry infused vodka. Amazing! If that’s your kind of thing 🙂

I love strawberries too and so do my kids. There is so much you can do with them and they are great in every recipe you use them in.
As for the vodka, I am a muslim Aimee, we don’t drink alcohol, even if it is strawberry infused

This is wonderful- been planning to make some fruit syrups since the store-bought ones always are full of high fructose corn syrup and at least I know what is going in it. I can’t wait until we have local strawberries in season. Also loved the recipe roundup- gave me some more things to try!

Great round up of strawberry recipes and perfect for the season, I have a strawberry salad with homemade vinaigrette that I just love. But your strawberry syrup has me wanting to make some pancakes and pour it on!

Sawsan, I want this strawberry syrup for pancakes or waffles! Hmmm must be heavenly. You have nice strawberry round up here. Everyone is a great cook and baker and it was fun checking each picture and recipe!

Oh dear, I have missed so many great posts lately, but now I am catching up!! A fantastic roundup. Strawberries are so versatile and one can never get enough new recipes! Your Strawberry Pistachio Crumble caught my attention really badly, must try it very very sonn 😉

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